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Jan 16, 2014 · Roger Lloyd Pack, the British actor known to millions as Trigger in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, has died aged 69 of pancreatic cancer. Well known for his rubbery face and lugubrious...
Roger Anthony Lloyd-Pack (8 February 1944 – 16 January 2014) was an English actor. He is best known for playing Trigger in Only Fools and Horses from 1981 to 2003, and Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley from 1994 to 2007. He later starred as Tom in The Old Guys with Clive Swift.
Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row. The twenty-seven inmates I photographed act as a metaphor for our criminal justice system. The Final Exposure project actually started for me at about age 15 when I argued on the issues of the death penalty with my father.
- Nixon’s ‘War on Crime’
- A Labyrinthine Process
- Death Row – at Bursting Point
- No Law Against Executing The Innocent
- When Justice Is Unjust
- ‘could You See Yourself Voting That Someone Should Die?’
- ‘At His Last Meal, He Said He Would Save Dessert For Later’
- A ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Punishment
The US had come close to abolition in 1972, when the Supreme Court ruled in Furman v Georgia that the system was arbitrary. Writing for the majority, Justice Potter Stewart wrote: “These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. For, of all the people convicted of rapes and murders in...
Once, the US system of justice seemed to be very deliberate compared with the timeline of the last British hanging: Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans allegedly killed John West on April 7, 1964, when he refused to lend them money. The trial began on June 21 and swiftly ended in a death sentence for each of them. The appeal was heard on July 20 and denie...
When a dam bursts, it can wreak havoc in a manner totally inconsistent with its purpose. The Banqiao Dam was one of a series constructed in China to promote the “Great Leap Forward”. When it burst in 1975, it caused as many as 250,000 deaths and destroyed more than six million homes. Likewise, Death Row–USA is in a state of dangerous flood. With 2,...
It is a shame when death is imposed on the basis of ideology. Unfortunately, there is another reason that the Supreme Court is so out of touch with reality: not a single justice since Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1993, has had any practical experience of criminal law. While justices pay lip service to the dangers of executing someone after a pate...
There are many underlying reasons why the justice system reaches an unjust result. I call them the Seven Deadly Sins of the Death Penalty, but actually there are many. Of the 174 death row exonerations, only 28 were proven by DNA evidence; more commonly, jurors were biased, defence lawyers had failed in their job, prosecutors had hidden exculpatory...
One of the ironies of the changing attitudes towards the death penalty is that juries are inevitably becoming more skewed against the defendant. In 1985, in Wainwright v Witt, the Supreme Court set the standard for excluding jurors from a capital trial: if you will not swear, when questioned by the judge, that you will impose a death sentence if yo...
In the hand-to-hand combat of the trenches, we have won many victories. I am immensely glad that I left the US to return to the UK in 2004 without having any of my clients on death row. Even on the wider lawfare battlegrounds, from time to time we have made progress. In 2002, in Atkins v Virginia, the Supreme Court outlawed the execution of those d...
At the end of it all, there is the desperate search for a way of killing people that might seem civilised. The first execution I had to witness – of Edward Johnson – took place in the Mississippi Gas Chamber in 1987. By way of revenge, in 1995, I brought suit on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – Mississippi used Zyclon B too – a...
- Clive Stafford Smith
Jan 16, 2014 · Roger Lloyd Pack, the British actor known to millions as slow-witted roadsweeper Trigger in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, has died aged 69. Well-known for his rubbery face and lugubrious...
Jan 17, 2014 · Roger Lloyd Pack, the British actor known to millions as slow-witted roadsweeper Trigger in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, has died aged 69. His agent said he had pancreatic cancer and "...
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Jan 16, 2014 · LONDON (AP) — British actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, best known for playing dim-witted street-sweeper Trigger on the sitcom “Only Fools and Horses,” has died at the age of 69. Agent Maureen Vincent said the actor had pancreatic cancer and died Wednesday at his home in London.
